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Weekend Box Office Report: 'American Sniper' Continues Its January Onslaughthttp://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-american-sniper-january/
http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-american-sniper-january/#commentsMon, 02 Feb 2015 05:23:18 +0000Jacob Hallhttp://screencrush.com/?p=228758Continue reading…]]>In most years, January tends to be the most boring month of the year for the box office. This is where Hollywood typically sends the movies in which it has the least faith. This is the dumping ground, the place where movies go to die so the studios can concentrate on their Oscar campaigns. However, thanks to ‘American Sniper,’ this January has bucked every trend. It may technically be a 2014 release, but Clint Eastwood’s war film has made the first chunk of 2015 interesting, shattering expectations and threatening to become the highest grossing film of last year in only a few weeks.

]]>http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-american-sniper-january/feed/0Warner Bros.Weekend Box Office Report: 'American Sniper' Takes Out 'Blackhat'http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-american-sniper/
http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-american-sniper/#commentsMon, 19 Jan 2015 10:51:09 +0000Jacob Hallhttp://screencrush.com/?p=226246Continue reading…]]>A lot of people are going to act like they didn’t see the enormous success of ‘American Sniper’ coming, but the signs were all there. On top of the promising limited release numbers, there was the awards buzz. On top of that, there were the names of director Clint Eastwood and star Bradley Cooper. On top of that, the subject matter of the film is inherently attractive to the same category of moviegoer that makes Christian-themed films into massive hits. ‘American Sniper’ had one doozy of a weekend, but it’s not that surprising.

]]>http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-american-sniper/feed/0Warner Bros.Weekend Box Office Report: 'The Pyramid' Gets Buried Upon Arrivalhttp://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-the-pyramid/
http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-the-pyramid/#commentsSun, 07 Dec 2014 18:03:58 +0000Jacob Hallhttp://screencrush.com/?p=219093Continue reading…]]>Honestly, we could have just copied and pasted last weekend’s box office report and gotten away with it. Outside of the shifting numbers, the order of the top 10 is almost identical to what it was a week ago. This is Hollywood in a holding pattern. The weekend after Thanksgiving is a wasteland. That’s probably why ‘The Pyramid’ was dumped this weekend. However, the lone newcomer in the top 10 didn’t just bomb, it bombed spectacularly.

]]>http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-the-pyramid/feed/020th Century FoxWeekend Box Office Report: 'Mockingjay' Crushes Thanksgiving Weekendhttp://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-mockingjay-thanksgiving-weekend/
http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-mockingjay-thanksgiving-weekend/#commentsMon, 01 Dec 2014 09:46:53 +0000Jacob Hallhttp://screencrush.com/?p=217708Continue reading…]]>Appropriately, the Thanksgiving holiday box office was all about the leftovers. While two high profile new releases struggled to open, films from the past few weeks continued to do solid business. In fact, this was one of the most varied weekends at the box office in quite some time, with YA adaptations, animated family movies, epic blockbusters, and small independent films all performing better than expected.

]]>http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-mockingjay-thanksgiving-weekend/feed/0LionsgateWeekend Box Office Report: 'Interstellar' and 'Big Hero 6′ Have a Showdownhttp://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-interstellar/
http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-interstellar/#commentsSun, 09 Nov 2014 17:20:44 +0000Jacob Hallhttp://screencrush.com/?p=213683Continue reading…]]>The showdown between 'Interstellar' and 'Big Hero 6' has got to be one of the most interesting things to happen to the box office in 2014. After all, it would be tough to find two movies that are simultaneously so different and so alike. Both are pro-science adventures that are all about using your intelligence to save your friends and family. However, one is an animated, family friendly release from Disney and the other is a three-hour epic from the ever-serious Christopher Nolan. In other words, they represent opposite ends of the blockbuster spectrum.

]]>http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-interstellar/feed/0ParamountWeekend Box Office Report: 'Nightcrawler' Edges Out the Competition in a Very Close Racehttp://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-nightcrawler-edges-out-the-competition-in-a-very-close-race/
http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-nightcrawler-edges-out-the-competition-in-a-very-close-race/#commentsMon, 03 Nov 2014 09:23:02 +0000Jacob Hallhttp://screencrush.com/?p=212670Continue reading…]]>Although 'Nightcrawler,' the only new wide release of the week, did end up taking the top spot at the box office this weekend, it did so in one of the tightest races we've ever seen. The top six films all came within $3 million of each other and the order could have radically changed by a stiff breeze for all we know. Heck, some titles may get swapped around by tomorrow when the studios release some more official numbers.

]]>http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-nightcrawler-edges-out-the-competition-in-a-very-close-race/feed/0Open Road FilmsWeekend Box Office Report: 'Ouija' Scares Up a Victory Over 'John Wick'http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-ouija-john-wick/
http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-ouija-john-wick/#commentsMon, 27 Oct 2014 08:40:43 +0000Jacob Hallhttp://screencrush.com/?p=211666Continue reading…]]>It feels like common sense: of course the horror movie released a week before Halloween is going to win the weekend war at the box office over the action movie. And yet, most horror movies continue to get released as far away from the season of the witch as possible. Can the recent success of 'Annabelle' and this weekend's 'Ouija' change that?

]]>http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-ouija-john-wick/feed/0SummitWeekend Box Office Report: 'Gone Girl' Vanquishes the Competitionhttp://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-gone-girl-dracula-untold/
http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-gone-girl-dracula-untold/#commentsMon, 13 Oct 2014 08:10:17 +0000Jacob Hallhttp://screencrush.com/?p=209749Continue reading…]]>'Gone Girl' may have barely won its first weekend at the box office over 'Annabelle,' but in its second week of release, it emerged as the real victor. Fighting off tons of new competition, David Fincher's thriller held onto the number one spot and made it look easy.

]]>http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-gone-girl-annabelle/feed/020th Century FoxWeekend Box Office Report: 'The Equalizer' Triumphs While 'The Boxtrolls' Underperformshttp://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-the-equalizer-the-boxtrolls/
http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-the-equalizer-the-boxtrolls/#commentsMon, 29 Sep 2014 08:50:02 +0000Jacob Hallhttp://screencrush.com/?p=207292Continue reading…]]>When you put Denzel Washington in an action movie, you've written your meal ticket for the foreseeable future. Few actors are as consistent as Washington with their opening weekends, even when the project looks like something everyone has seen countless times before

]]>http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-the-maze-runner-walk-among-the-tombstones/feed/020th Century FoxWeekend Box Office Report: 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Reigns Over a Very Slow Weekendhttp://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-guardians-of-the-galaxy-reigns-over-a-very-slow-weekend/
http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-guardians-of-the-galaxy-reigns-over-a-very-slow-weekend/#commentsMon, 08 Sep 2014 08:06:09 +0000Jacob Hallhttp://screencrush.com/?p=204384Continue reading…]]>There actually was a new film released this week. It's called 'The Identical' and it's a Christian-themed fable about what would have happened if Elvis Presley's stillborn twin brother had survived. Well, for reasons that should be obvious after reading that sentence, 'Guardians of the Galaxy' held onto the number one spot this weekend while 'The Identical' opened outside of the top 10, never to be heard from again.

]]>http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-guardians-of-the-galaxy-reigns-over-a-very-slow-weekend/feed/0MarvelWeekend Box Office Report: 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Trounces All Newcomershttp://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-guardians-of-the-galaxy-labor-day-weekend/
http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-guardians-of-the-galaxy-labor-day-weekend/#commentsMon, 01 Sep 2014 08:14:57 +0000Jacob Hallhttp://screencrush.com/?p=203601Continue reading…]]>A few weeks ago, this column was skeptical that Marvel's 'Guardians of the Galaxy' could reach $300 million. Now, it seems impossible that it won't. Thanks to ecstatic word of mouth, killer marketing and only one genuinely successful box office challenger (that would be 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'), Marvel's oddball space opera has managed to spend three of the past four weekends at the number one spot at the box office, giving it enough momentum to officially become the highest grossing film of 2014.

]]>http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-guardians-of-the-galaxy-labor-day-weekend/feed/0MarvelWeekend Box Office Report: 'Sin City' Sputters, 'If I Stay' Surprises, 'Guardians' Reigns Supremehttp://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-sin-city-sputters-if-i-stay-surprises-guardians-reigns-supreme/
http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-sin-city-sputters-if-i-stay-surprises-guardians-reigns-supreme/#commentsSun, 24 Aug 2014 16:35:17 +0000Jacob Hallhttp://screencrush.com/?p=202635Continue reading…]]>You can tell the summer movie season is coming to an end because the weekend box office has stopped being exciting and has starting becoming sad and weird. The past two weeks have seen several major movies bomb, but nothing could have prepared us for 'Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.'

]]>http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-sin-city-sputters-if-i-stay-surprises-guardians-reigns-supreme/feed/0DimensionWeekend Box Office Report: 'The Expendables 3′ Can't Keep Up With the Guardians or the Turtleshttp://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-the-expendables-3/
http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-the-expendables-3/#commentsSun, 17 Aug 2014 18:14:50 +0000Jacob Hallhttp://screencrush.com/?p=201695Continue reading…]]>A trio of newcomers entered the box office arena this weekend, but two battle-hardened and grizzled champions kept them at bay, holding onto the top two spots and making it look easy. Sorry, newbies: This top 10 still belongs to 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' and 'Guardians of the Galaxy.'

]]>http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-the-expendables-3/feed/0LionsgateWeekend Box Office Report: The 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Battle the 'Guardians of the Galaxy'http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/
http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/#commentsMon, 11 Aug 2014 08:50:37 +0000Jacob Hallhttp://screencrush.com/?p=200752Continue reading…]]>30 years after their comic book debut and several decades since they last ruled the box office, the 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' returned this week and proved that they're as relevant and popular as ever. Although many people wondered if the turtles wou

]]>http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/feed/0ParamountWeekend Box Office Report: 'Lucy' Takes Down the Mighty 'Hercules'http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-lucy-hercules/
http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-lucy-hercules/#commentsMon, 28 Jul 2014 08:59:56 +0000Jacob Hallhttp://screencrush.com/?p=198431Continue reading…]]>This weekend saw two movies named after their lead characters go head-to-head. In one corner, you have 'Lucy.' In the other, 'Hercules.' If you asked the average person who would win in a battle between Dwayne Johnson and Scarlett Johansson, most would probably side with the guy whose nickname is "The Rock." But the box office this weekend went in a completely different direction.

]]>http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-lucy-hercules/feed/0UniversalWeekend Box Office Report: 'The Purge' Can't Wipe Out the Planet of the Apeshttp://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-the-purge-anarchy/
http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-the-purge-anarchy/#commentsMon, 21 Jul 2014 08:39:42 +0000Jacob Hallhttp://screencrush.com/?p=196927Continue reading…]]>Despite three very different new challengers, 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' continued to rule over the box office this weekend. This doesn't spell disaster for the newcomers, but it does spell further success for the sequel to 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes,' which is riding extremely positive word of mouth to a big box office tally.

]]>http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-the-purge-anarchy/feed/0Blumhouse ProductionsWeekend Box Office Report: 'Think Like a Man Too' Soundly Defeats 'Jersey Boys'http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-think-like-a-man-too/
http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-think-like-a-man-too/#commentsMon, 23 Jun 2014 08:37:05 +0000Jacob Hallhttp://screencrush.com/?p=192613Continue reading…]]>Unless your movie was named 'Jersey Boys,' this was a pretty excellent weekend at the box office for all parties involved. A new film opened big in the number one spot, last week's champions held on strong, and others continued to perform well further down the charts. But boy, it really kinda' sucks to be 'Jersey Boys.'

]]>http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-think-like-a-man-too/feed/0Warner Bros.Weekend Box Office Report: 'The Fault in Our Stars' Cruises Past 'Edge of Tomorrow'http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-the-fault-in-our-stars/
http://973thedawg.com/weekend-box-office-report-the-fault-in-our-stars/#commentsMon, 09 Jun 2014 07:51:02 +0000Jacob Hallhttp://screencrush.com/?p=190051Continue reading…]]>Ah, the summer. The time of the year where the box office is ruled by superhero movies, science fiction extravaganzas and, uh, slightly quirky cancer weepies. What? For reasons that will baffle some people, 'The Fault in Our Stars' effortlessly took the number one spot at the box office this weekend, gliding past its bigger, more expensive and more ferocious competition and making it look easy.